Our goal for 2014 is to focus on the cultural conversation about land, continue gathering and documenting case studies and models, and research and preparing to build the mechanism for land transaction in 2015.

Other goals for the program:

1. Build the issue of Land Access through public programming, press outreach and messaging.

2. Support the network of practitioners as well as farmers looking for land.

We will convene a meeting of about 20 stakeholders to refine the underlying principles that will guide our work together with Agrarian Trust.

2. Symposium on Land Access, April 26, 2014, Berkeley CA

A day-long symposium addressing many aspects of our focal land access issue. Co-sponsored by Chelsea Green and the Berkeley Food Institute.

Speakers List (Tentative/In Progress):

Wes Jackson, The Land Institute

Joel Salatin, Polyface Farm

Sjoerd Wartena, Terre de Liens

Elizabeth Henderson, Peaceworks Farm NY

Gary Nabhan, Author/ Professor

Raj Patel, Writer/Activist

Eric Holt-Gimenez, Food First

*invited Janaina Stronzake, M.S.T Landless Peasants Movement, (Brazil)
*invited Winona LaDuke, White Earth Land Recovery Project

3. Professional development workshops

Starting on March 29, 2014 Agrarian Trust will be convening 10 workshops. Organized regionally, these will generate "open source" curriculum modules for use by farmers and farm service providers for professional development. We will be sending notifications about all these workshops at a later date.

We hope you will continue to watch out for innovative models, and forward them along to myself or to Kristen Loria [email protected], who has joined Brooke Werley and Severine as part of the Agrarian Trust team after more than 2 years working on Greenhorns and Farm Hack.